The Qur'an, in its second chapter, Al-Baqara, Quran 2:259, mentions a parable, concerning a man who passed by a hamlet in ruins, and asked himself how...

sought to teach the people the forgotten laws of God. He is sometimes identified as the protagonist in the Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins in surah Baqara...

messenger." Belief in the Islamic prophets is one of the six articles of the Islamic faith. Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the first human being...

scattered by the winds. And God is capable of all things." Other examples are the parable of the Two Gardens in chapter 18:32-44, the Hamlet in Ruins in chapter...

advent of Muhammad in the land of Hejaz. Ibn Kathir tafsir narrate that the Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins, which from the 259th verse of Al-Baqara chapter...

Islam. 258-260 The doctrine of the resurrection illustrated with allusions to Nimrod against Abraham and Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins 261-274 Exhortation...

Retrieved 29 February 2024. Oates, Joyce Carol (1980). ""The Picture of Dorian Gray": Wilde's Parable of the Fall". Critical Inquiry. 7 (2): 419–428. doi:10.1086/448106...

Personnel taken from The Criterion Collection. Kurosawa conceived of the idea that became Ran in the mid-1970s, when he read a parable about the Sengoku-period...

writing for The Observer, faulted the novel's uneven construction and lack of emotional depth. She concluded: "In the end, Oryx and Crake is a parable, an imaginative...

emotions by representing the collapse of human creations and inevitable decay– hence the urge to add fake ruins as eyecatchers in English landscape parks...

Gospel of Luke's parable of the Good Samaritan which depicts the "Good" Samaritan as a hated foreigner (Lynwood Smith 2015, p. 133). Furthermore, the temple...

dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The novel has been translated into 34 languages. In the movie adaptation and novels after the original...

Game. The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, because of relativistic space travel at near-light...

"out of some inborn instinct". Card's 2008 novella Hamlet's Father re-imagines the backstory of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In the novella, Hamlet's friends...

novels take the form of quasi-Platonic dialogues in which the characters talk about philosophical ideas, Allen's seem more like parables or fables". Midden...

Fabian parable contrasting impractical idealism with pragmatic socialism. The central theme of Candida (1894) is a woman's choice between two men; the play...

Theodosius also nominated the last pair of pagan consuls in Roman history (Tatianus and Symmachus) in 391. Classicist Ingomar Hamlet says that, contrary to...

the world economy was endangered. The much-copied storyline was a parable that was metaphorically interpreted in many different ways at the outset of...

honour excellence in theatre throughout the province of Nova Scotia. They are named for Robert Merritt, who was well known to the Halifax community both...

The List of Paintings and Drawings by Taras Shevchenko contains works by the Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861). Here is the translated...